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Blue indicates carbon monoxide gas in which the system is immersed. Image via ESO/ M. Kornmesser/ NRAO.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NROA) announced late last week (December 1, 2016) that astronomers used radio......

...with this molecular gas spanning three times the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy," said Preshanth Jagannathan, of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
Earlier observations of the Spiderweb, made at ultraviolet wavelengths, have......

...with this molecular gas spanning three times the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy," said Preshanth Jagannathan, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM.
Earlier observations of the Spiderweb, made at ultraviolet......

Bank, WV observatoryWoman is fighting for survival of Green Bank, WV observatory
Green Bank was the birthplace of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory system and has since attracted astronomers and engineers from around the world. It has......

Bank, WV observatoryWoman is fighting for survival of Green Bank, WV observatory
Green Bank was the birthplace of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory system and has since attracted astronomers and engineers from around the world. It has......

Less obvious is the world-renowned research occurring inside the observatory.
Green Bank was the birthplace of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory system and has since attracted astronomers and engineers from around the world. It has......

Less obvious is the world-renowned research occurring inside the observatory.
Green Bank was the birthplace of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory system and has since attracted astronomers and engineers from around the world. It has......

...reveals details of the interactions between the two merging [galaxy] clusters and suggests that previously unexpected physical processes are at work in such encounters," Frazer Owen of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory said in a st......

Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSFArtist's conception of how the "nearly naked" supermassive black hole originated.
James Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory , said: "We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive blackholes, with one offset......

...$8.2 million level represents approximately 75% of the base budget for GBO that was part of previous appropriations to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory . The FY 2017 President’s Request Budget shows an increase to $11.85 million in FY 2018,......

...to create a single, massive telescope capable of the greatest resolutions yet.
Astronomers operate this system from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory 's Domenici Science Operations Center in Socorro, NM.
The Very Long Baseline Array......